lietu
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I have an Elgato Game Capture HD, that I use to capture the video from a console. This device seems to introduce about 1.5 seconds of lag to the video.
To compensate for that, I need to set my mic and webcam to buffer for 1500ms when streaming with the Elgato. However, I also stream without the Elgato, so I need to have a way to toggle between buffered and unbuffered modes for the mic and webcam.
For the mic that was not a big deal, I created two profiles and switch between them. However unlike like I expected, it doesn't seem the scene settings didn't seem to be affected by the profile switching.
As an alternative to profile switching, I tried to create two global sources with different settings for the same webcam, and I'd only use one of them at a time. However, OBS prevents doing this with an error message saying: "A global source using this device already exists".
So I thought I'd leave the unbuffered settings as global, since I will likely have more scenes I want that on, and create "local" sources for the screens with Elgato .. but again, OBS prevents me from doing that with the same message.
What I *can* do is create the webcam for every screen separately, but now if I want to change the settings, it'll quickly become a chore.
Is there some way to bypass the silly limitation for global sources?
If not, does anyone have any other ways for managing this mess with the buffers? I would prefer not to add the 1500ms buffer to everything all the time, that'll just contribute to issues and stream lag which is already annoying.
To compensate for that, I need to set my mic and webcam to buffer for 1500ms when streaming with the Elgato. However, I also stream without the Elgato, so I need to have a way to toggle between buffered and unbuffered modes for the mic and webcam.
For the mic that was not a big deal, I created two profiles and switch between them. However unlike like I expected, it doesn't seem the scene settings didn't seem to be affected by the profile switching.
As an alternative to profile switching, I tried to create two global sources with different settings for the same webcam, and I'd only use one of them at a time. However, OBS prevents doing this with an error message saying: "A global source using this device already exists".
So I thought I'd leave the unbuffered settings as global, since I will likely have more scenes I want that on, and create "local" sources for the screens with Elgato .. but again, OBS prevents me from doing that with the same message.
What I *can* do is create the webcam for every screen separately, but now if I want to change the settings, it'll quickly become a chore.
Is there some way to bypass the silly limitation for global sources?
If not, does anyone have any other ways for managing this mess with the buffers? I would prefer not to add the 1500ms buffer to everything all the time, that'll just contribute to issues and stream lag which is already annoying.
